Hi BP people,
For those of you who are flipping properties built prior to 1978, I'd appreciate if you can talk about dealing with things like lead-based paint, asbestos etc., nowadays (when market is crazy and you ne...

This may be a newbie question but if I'm dealing with a wholesaler or other investor and I want to buy their property and they quote me an asking price, what is the process steps of getting the deal while ensuring you...

I have been contemplating this myself for a while. Every time when I have a midnight emergency, its about leaky water heater that is about 6+ years old. Do you wait to replace water heater till it fail or you have a s...

I am not sure if this has been brought to the board before, though I have been successful with a new strategy I have used for searching for REOs and I would like to share it.

Instead of looking f...

"CoreLogic Expects Short Sale Fraud Prevention Tool to Catch On"

http://www.biggerpockets.com/links/6844

Excerpt from this link:

To prevent short-sale fraud before closing, the new tool matches loan details against...

Thinking about stepping outside my comfort zone and maybe doing out of state investing.  I recently listened to Dave M. interview C. Clothier about turnkey investment properties.  I use a pm right now for what I have ...

This is my first deal, and I'm in a buyer market. Some of the request seem to be simple fix and trivial. What i need to agree to and what can i get away with without the deal fall through? I like the idea of just redu...

What have you found to be the best closet door for a rental? The best door would have these features in this order:1) most durable2) ease of installation3) aesthetically pleasingI'm not looking for anything fancy as ...

We are doing a remodel on a house in Sunriver, OR.  Most of the homes there were built in the 70's and have an overabundance of wood and volcanic rock everything! The rock is a black and dark gray color, not appealing...

Since I'm remote investor, my contractor will send me pics of the rehab along the way. This is what he sent me before the siding project was completed. He used dutch lap vinyl siding. I see some dislocation (?) betwee...